We invite you to visualize the story in the above graphic (Figure 1). You answer your house door to find your friend sopping wet from a surprise rainstorm. Would you act as if the situation were ...

Curiosity is powerful. Psychologists tell us that curiosity enhances intelligence and increases perseverance. Being curious propels us to deeper engagement, superior performance, and more meaningful ...

Imagine it’s 7:00 a.m. Your phone, lying quietly on your bedside table, suddenly lights up, and your alarm rings. You sit up, turn off the alarm, and pick up your phone. Before you fully awaken or ...

Filipp Sapienza is a web developer, UX professional, and computational social scientist. User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) International supports people who research, design, and ...

Figure 1. So many ways to greet a person—multi-language design. Multilingual design is a complex undertaking, but it is crucial for making websites accessible to international markets. You need to ...

In Asian countries, especially in Southeast Asia, user experience or UX until relatively recently has been thought to be just focused on the look and feel of an interface. Not only did the majority of ...

Machine learning (ML) practitioners face a growing problem: Products and services increasingly generate and rely on larger, more complex datasets. As datasets grow in breadth and volume, the ML models ...

Figure 1. There’s much more to the user experience of a library than navigating the stacks. (Credit: Mauricio Lazo/UH Libraries) Libraries may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking ...

The first of three case studies appears in Chapter 4. Dr Sun looks at Facebook in Japan, and how its approach of networked individualism in America failed to capture Japanese audiences due to their ...

In early 2014, we found ourselves working for an organization with a large product portfolio built up over decades of acquisitions. To create a cohesive branded experience, it became clear that many ...

The Tor Project is a U.S. nonprofit composed of individuals from all around the world. Guided by common values such as privacy, anonymity, security, and freedom, these individuals build technologies ...

Futuristic fashions depict the ideologies of the period in history when the fashions were created far more accurately than they manage to predict future fabrication materials or functions. For example ...